PAGE 8 THE CAROLINA JOURNAL, Wednesday, January 31, 1968
Petition Of Voting Age
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To Begin February 5
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BY RICHARD ALSOP
A campaign to petition that the
voting age in North Carolina for
local and state elections be low
ered to the age of eighteen years
will be gin on campus Feb. 5.
A formal petition to this effect
will be made to the State Con
gress on behalf of the petition
by Mr. Jim Beatty, Mecklenburg
County’s House Representative in
Raleigh, who is managingthis cam
paign on a statewide basis,.Locally
the campaign will be handled by
Barbara Steegmuller, on request
ot Mr. Beatty, and this writer
will co-ordinate the petitioning on
the University campus here in
Charlotte.
All the co-operation that is be
ing asked from the students of this
campus is to sign one of the cop
ies of the petition that will be
available during the week of Feb.
5-9. A copy will be outside the
Union Cafeteria during this time
for students, and a special copy
oC interest to faculty members and
administration officials will be left
at the Union desk.
For those students or organiza
tions who have a greater inter
est in this campaign and wish to
be a further part of this move
ment, please leave your name and
phone number at the Union desk
addressed to Richard Alsop, in
care of the CAROLINA JOURNAL.
The Interest in lowering the
voting age came after the reali
zation that the young people to
day are better educated, better
informed, and more genuinely in
terested in politics than the youth
of any previous generation.
Prof. Norem
Gets Grant
The young people today between
the ages of 18 and 21 in the state
of North Carolina have more edu
cation than the average adult cap
able of voting. The young people
have a wider variety of literature
available to them to broader their
field of views than any previous
generation.
The minority of adult voters,
who are skeptical of allowing eight
een and nineteen year olds to vote
because they fear that a fast talk
ing politician is going to capture
their votes behind a shield which
may hide an unworthy intention,
should consider the feict that
the young people today are far less
gullible than the uneducated far
mer, or ill-informed factory wor
ker of 20 or 40 years ago.
Many people fail to realize that
the young people today are using
the education afforded them by
their previous generation to re
move these shieids and seek out
the truth in a society in which they
will be a greater part for the next
half century or so.
The youth of today is genuinely
interested in the well being of
their state and local institutions,
and would like to show their in
terests by voting in the next local
and state elections.
CHARLOTTE — An engineering
professor here has received an
$11,270 grant to help develop heat
resisting alloys like those used
in space and nuclear programs.
Dr. Walter E. Norem, assis
tant professor of mechanical en
gineering, received the grant from
the North Carolina Board of
Science and Technology.
Dr. Norem will be studying the
effects of the chemical composi
tion and heat treatments primar
ily upon nickel-base alloys. He
says tha t these alloys gener
ally have good mechanical proper
ties and corrosion resistance at
high temperatures.
He hopes that his research will
show the reasons for the good
properties of these alloys. This
information, he hopes, will lead
to the development of new alloys
with improved high temperature
properties.
Most of the $11,270 grant will
be used to purchase high purity
metals, the equipment necessary
to melt these to form the desired
alloys for study, and a precision
ultra-high temperature heattreat
ing furnace.
Dr. Norem plans to do most
of his research duringthe summer
of 1968, but will begin the program
right away and continue it through
1968-69.
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(4) CREATIVITY;
The ascetic atmosphere needed
for creativity is absent on this
campus. For the Barnstormer to
survive and improve, for painting
and sculpture to emerge and for
FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE”:
This campus has less than2,000
students and course classes are
new ideas to flow here, there must
be a drastic change in the campus
atmosphere. This atmosphere is
formed by the attitudes of the
students. The time for a change
small in comparison with most uni
versities. This is a perfect setting
for discussion with instructors, in
and out of the classroom, which is
largely ignored by the student body.
I have found that most instructors
are not only willing to converse
with the students but anxious to
of attitude is now. While everyone
awaits the coming of “our Lord
the Dorm” to forgive us our sins
and give us our salvation the poten
tial Sandburg, Hoffer and Goya
weep in despair.
Talent must be cultivated and no
matter how fertile the soil maybe,
it will be unproductive without the
proper atmospheric conditions. We
now face a famine of 19 years. What
will we do about it? Starve to
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do so. A fewactually seek intellec
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worid” by inviting students to their
homes and sitting in on cafeteria
skull sessions. Students should
take advantage of this wealth of
information and experience af
forded them by the excellent faculty
at UNC-C.
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girls from ages 18-25 who are
interested in entering the “Miss
Charlotte-Mecklenburg” pageant
sponsored by the Mecklenburg
Jaycees to be held Saturday,April
20, at the Garinger High School
auditorium.
Anyone interested in entering
should contact one of the following
Jaycee wives as soon as possible;
Mrs. Neal Eggleston at 332-7634
or Mrs. Jurgen Meyer-Cuno at
366-9321. ;
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